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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Beulah, peel me a grape [1]

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Date: 2022-08-26  

First, Beulah has no idea where the damn grape is.

She just got her manicure and frankly could care less.

She does find the cocky Cockney cute.

But, so does that glittery Lil and well---

It’s Lil’s Big Show.

Lil has blood on her hands, and rubs in the almond

scented lotion, while she waits for that peeled grape.

Beulah pours a large portion of gin

and recalls the Minstrel shows, Bessie Smith,

chicken dinners in a picnic basket,

and a guy named Roy. He was no prince,

but a king of the bedroom rambles.

Elsewhere, boots are beating the ground, leaving

bloodied feet and untended harvests

as glass breaks across the faces of Polish Jews

and the Spanish Republicans fight black clad insurgents.

More boots, pretty, shiny, well-made boots.

“until the war” says Tom in The Glass Menagerie.

When America sits in a “dark room” and watches

“until the war”. Death’s stench rolls across

the Atlantic, a powerful fog. Meanwhile,

The dapper heroes roam landscapes as fake

as their stage names and the heroines roll

up their stockings or sweat the chorus line

But not

Miss Lil and the disobedient Beulah, both swaying

large hips and rolling brown eyes, generously

Awaiting a man’s tongue sucking

For Gertrude Howard (1892-1934)

Unlike brandy, which is produced by directly fermenting pure grape juice, grappa is made by using pomace: the skins, seeds, leftover pulp, and even the stems after pressing grapes for wine. However, the remaining juice, which is known as moût or must isn't used as is the case with either Ratafia or acquavite d'uva.

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